SPRINGFIELD – Hampden Superior Court Judge Tina S. Page on Thursday gave probation as punishment to a father and son who admitted having more than $30,000 in stolen goods, about 2200 pirated DVDs and 300 cartons of untaxed cigarettes when police raided their Hancock Street fish market.

Page did not accept the agreed upon recommendation by prosecution and defense which would have given Jorge Severino, 54, and Luis Severino, 24, a year in the Hampden County Correctional Center in Ludlow followed by two years probation.

Instead Page sentenced the younger Severino to five years probation and his father to four years probation.

Assistant District Attorney Richard B. Morse said the Severinos, who owned Hancock Seafood Market at 262 Hancock St., were known by thieves as the people they could go to and sell stolen goods.

Police had called it an elaborate fencing operation.

City police, after an investigation of more than a year, entered the market and the family residence upstairs with a warrant Feb. 3, 2010. They found stolen goods and later representatives from seven stores identified merchandise stolen from the stores.

The largest amounts of goods were $27,847 worth from CVS, $902 worth from Family Dollar and $809 worth from Stop and Shop.

Police used a confidential informant five times over more than half a year to sell purported stolen goods from CVS, such as Claritan, Prilosec, Rogaine, Infamil, and White Strips, Morse said.

Morse said the Severinos even gave the informant names of products that they wanted him to steal.

Police found in a bedroom of the second floor apartment 2,197 pirated DVDs, newly printed DVD labels, blank DVDs and empty cases. Morse said eight of the movies had not yet been released commercially to DVD.

The Severinos each pleaded guilty to three counts of receiving stolen property, and one count each of illegally recording merchandise (the DVDs) and selling unstamped cigarettes.

Morse, who said the Severino’s had no prior record, said Springfield police “did an enormous amount of work” on the investigation.

He said there was “no flesh and blood victim” but the actions came at a cost to the community, to the corporations and to the willingness of stores to locate in particular neighborhoods.

Defense lawyers George M. Nassar for Jorge Severino and Bruce Green for Luis Severino had urged Page to accept the agreed upon sentence of one year in jail plus two years probation.

It is normal, when a sentence is agreed upon, both sides ask that a judge accept the agreement.

The judge took a break from the bench and then came back and said she was not going to send the men to jail.

Nassar and Green said their clients main business at the store was legal, although they are “essentially out of business now.” The stolen goods found on site were returned to the stores.

Page said so many cases that come into Hampden Superior Court involve “human misery,” where victims are sometimes children or the elderly and where there are people from gang-affected or drug addicted families.

Page said she was not minimizing what the Severinos did but believed the probation sentence is a fair one.